The PowerPoint of merit

I had a dream that everyone, the entirety of the world, suddenly died. Yet the entire populace ended up in some netherworld, something like purgatory. People began to organize. Some became more religious. Some played a lot of basketball. I believe I was with the basketball folk.

The religious folk began a great push to try to save some souls. They sat everyone down in a bunch of chairs facing a projector screen. They said that our souls needed saving because of some reason.

One by one, they began to list the names of the occupants of purgatory, and a big image of a gold, silver, or copper medal according to "merit." All the while, a logarithmic number line showed beneath the medals, and the powers of ten slowly got more and more negative.

I began to see the inanity of the situation, as the "judgments" suggested by the medals were decided upon by men, so I concluded the whole thing was silly. I just watched the number line scroll and scroll, asymptotically approaching zero. Then I woke up.